code
Well, I've been working tons on twisted.web which I talked
about in the last diary entry. I'm really having a fun
time hacking on it. This is the first project that I'm
actually a contributor of, instead of a failure of a
leader. :)

I've also been working on a little password manager in
Python/Tkinter. It's coming along well..
I made a module called PPDF (Password Protected Data File)
that uses md5_crypt for the password protection, and AES
for encrypting the data. I also use 'mencode' (a module
from mojonation) to encode the data before encrypting.
Then I wrote a Tkinter GUI for it, and it's pretty decent.
The GUI needs cleaned up badly, but it's pretty usable.

SchoolBoard
A few months ago I wanted to start a project named
SchoolBoard for high schools or other educational
institutions to provide an environment where teachers and
students can interact (note, not an actual educational
environment itself, just something for high schools to use).
It was going to be in the format of a weblog with many
additional features..
But unfortunately that project died very quickly. But with
my recent interest in the Twisted.Web
Python web server, I decided to fiddle around with the idea
some more. Currently I'm porting html_cal.py
to my design to integrate with the weblog. All the modules
of the site will be completely independant of each other,
though, so I suppose I'll be writing the first
general-purpose weblog for T.W. Fun Fun. :)

Breakout
I haven't worked on my breakout clone in a couple of days,
and I gotta force myself to do some more work on that..
Usually if I put all my attention on one project, eventually
everything just goes to hell.

It's been a long time. yada yada yada, everyone has times
where they don't post a diary entry for a long time and go
through the schpiel of what happened since then. Here's
mine.

Boring old life
I got my drivers license. I got a job at Eat 'n' Park. I'm
very happy with my relationship with my girlfriend. 'Nuff
said.

school
Well, my last entry was about how I couldn't take my SAT,
but I got to take the test the next month. I got my scores
back, a total of 1210.
I applied to the University of Pittsburgh, but didn't get
accepted. My GPA is 2.44, so that's understandable. If I
don't get into Robert Morris College (The privates school in
Moon Township, PA, not the other one), then I'm going to the
local community college for a year, and apply to pitt and
RMC again (and whatever other colleges catch my fancy).

Code
I've done a lot of coding lately. I've been learning PyGame, which is an SDL
interface for Python, and right now my big learning project
is a breakout game. I know about xboing and xbreaky(?), but
I want to do something on the level of Krypton
Egg, which is the self-proclaimed best breakout game in
the world, and I can find no evidence to disprove that. I'm
having so much fun doing game programming.

I wrote a couple of sprite classes for PyGame, that are
general enough that I think I might release them as a
package. Maybe I'll even extend them to C, I think they
would be well-received by the (small, but fast-growing)
PyGame community.

Exanoks
Before I started on my breakout game, I started writing an
Exanoks client utilizing PyGame. I haven't touched the code
in a while, but I'm hoping that it'll become the "official"
client for Exanoks.

Web site
I completely rewrote my web site in Python,
using the Twisted.Web web
server. I really think it's neat.

Alright, I'm officially a retard and a slacker. And anyone
who is reading this gets to find out why. I'm a
senior in high school, and I never took the SAT or even PSAT
tests. So this year, I signed up for SAT on November 4th
(today), and also signed up for a SAT prep course for 150
dollars (both the test and the course fees came out of my
mother's pocket). Well, I went to ONE of the 12 or so
classes in the prep course, which means my mother can't get
her $75 refund back for students who attend all of the
classes.

And that's not all of it. Well, I'm obviously not out taking
the SAT right now, as I'm sitting at home typing this. Well,
I realized last night that I had no photo ID, which is
required to take the test. You're supposed to get a physical
description on school stationary signed by the principal if

you don't have photo ID. It was a little late for that.

It gets better. I lost the ticket that I'm supposed to
present at the test center for admission. Since I don't have
that, I can't reschedule the test for another date for even
a small fee.. I have to register all over again, paying the
full amount. Oh, and yes, there's even more. The deadline
for signing up for the next test on December 12 is passed,
and I have to pay a late fee to get in.